Ronnie Wachter

Recent Articles

Having a passion for cars, 14-year-old Brandon Bowers, of Buffalo Grove, went down an entrepreneurial route this past summer like many teenagers and started traveling to different northwest suburbs to wash people's cars. But for Bowers, his enterprise, which he dubbed R & B's Hand Car Wash, was...

Officials at the National Park Service want some questions answered before they consider whether to place Long Grove's one-lane covered bridge on the National Register of Historic Places. The federal agency that decides what places receive the historical designation recently returned the Illinois...

Craig Siepka is used to groundbreaking ceremonies, but he still couldn't contain his excitement as he walked past construction machinery at Aptakisic Junior High School before officials recently celebrated the start of a multi-million-dollar expansion project. As vice president of Chicago-based...

A beer brewer who also judges others' craft-beer creations, Buffalo Grove resident Jim Silverstein usually only needs a sip or two to decipher where a brewer went wrong – including his own brews. Silverstein, who is a beer-tasting judge through the Beer Judge Certification Program, said he initially...

Sarah Bowen, director of student services, and other administrators at Stevenson High School realize when teenagers enter adolescence, they encounter difficult challenges for the first time, including depression, which can lead to suicide. To address the often unspoken effects of depression and...

After recently toying with the idea of imposing term limits on elected officials, Buffalo Grove Village Board members ultimately decided a process already exists to limit a trustee's time in office – local elections. A hotly debated issue at the state level in recent years, the issue of term limits...

The top administrator in Lincolnshire recently received a salary raise and bonus nearly a year after village officials increased his annual salary by roughly $8,700. Lincolnshire Village Board members pointed to a busy and, sometimes, tumultuous year as reasons why Village Manager Brad Burke deserved...